Display-holder.



F. N. LOOK.

DISPLAY HOLDER. APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 27, 1903.

9005942. Patented Oct, 13,- 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK N. LOOK, OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSGNOR TO THE FLORENCE MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAS- SACHUSETTS.

DISPLAY-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.-

Patented Oct. 18, 1908.

T0 all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FRANK N. Loox, citizen of the United States, residing at Northampton, county of Hampshire, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Display-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Many articles of manufacture are now packed in individual boxes, the outside surfaces of which are used for purposes of advertising, and retail dealers in these goods frequently desire to display them in their individual boxes on the counter, in show cases and on the walls of their stores. Various kinds of display holders adapted to contain one or more individual boxes have previously been made. It is also convenient to be able to use the display holder to contain the goods in their individual boxes when the goods are sent through the mails.

My invention has for its-object to provide a display holder for individual boxes, especially for long narrow ones, such for instance as are employed to contain tooth brushes and the like, which shall holder and as a mailing package for inclosing the goods when it is desired to ship them.

Heretofore difliculty has been found with display holders of this kind in that the vacant spaces left by the removal or sale of part of the boxes are unsightly, and to obviate this diculty, printed matter like that printed on the boxes has been printed on the back of the display holder so that the removal of the boxes will not be noticeable to a casual observer. My improved display holder, however, provides a device in which this is unnecessary, since it is possible to remove a considerable number of the boxes which it contains without the removal being noticeable to the ordinary observer.

My improved display holder also serves as a mailing package, and when so employed holds the goods securely for transportation.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the novel features are pointed out and clearly dened in the'claims at the close of the speciiication.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is an elevation in perspective of a display holder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a serve both as a displayV display holder iilledwith individual boxes such as are employed to contain manufactured articles.

Referring to the drawings and more particularly to Fig. 1the display holder is composed essentially of pieces of card board or similar material died or cut from a sheet and creased, scored or folded into the desired form. At l0 there is indicated the back or main piece of the display holder. This is substantially rectangular and of a width equal to the length of one of the boxes with which the display holder is to be used and of a height equal to some multiple of the width of the boxes to be used. In the drawings I have shown the body 10 of the display holder as containing a half dozen boxes 11, the ends of which are plainly seen in Fig. 2. If desired the body l0 may be made lower in which case it will contain a smaller number of the Said boxes 11. The body 10 is folded at a distance from its top edge equal to the thickness of one of the boxes 11, as shown at 12 and 13, to form at the to a flap 14 and at the bottom a bottom 15. ttached to the bottom 15 are a pair of long narrow strips 16 and 17 which, when in folded position, form sides or ends of the display holder and extend upwardly above the iiap 14 for a distance equal to a multiple of the widths of the boxes to be held in the upper part of the display holder. These strips may, if desired, be provided at their upper ends with locking tongues 18 and 19 adapted' to engage each other as shown m Fig. 2. The said strips 16 and 17 are slightly narrower than the full thickness of one of the boxes 11 with which the said display holder is to be employed so that boxes may be placed in the display holder, the end strips 16 and 17 being bent to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and the tongues or tucks which form the ends of the boxes bent over the strips 16 and 17 and tucked into the front of the box so that the boxes are held securely in the display holder.

While I have shown the strips 16 and 1.7 as provided with locking tongues 18 and 19 at their upper ends, these may be omitted as their only purpose is to make the package stronger for mailing, and they are subsequently torn or cut off as will be later described.

When the display holder is filled with boxes, the two tongues 18 and 19 (if tongues s maining portions of said strips.

are provided) are folded across the ends of the boxes and locked as shown in Fig. 2, thereby holding the various parts and the individual boxes securely in place so tliat the Whole may be wrapped or otherwise securely packed for transportation. A support 20 attached to the body 10 by a hinge 21 of cloth or other similar material and prevented from spreading by the ordinary -tie strip of cloth 22, makes it possible to stand the package up on the counter or other similar place when desired. The package may also be hung or suspended if desired.

When the retailer receives the package, it

may be stood up on the counter by means of the prop or support 20. When one of the individual boxes is sold from tlie package, it is removed and the parts of the strips 16 and 17 which project above the upper surface of j the remaining boxes are severed from the remainder of the strips on a level With the top surface of the uppermost bex, so that the package still appears to be full and coinplete, and is still held together by the re- I have indicated the point at which the strips would be severed after the removal of one box by means of the dotted lines 23 and 24- in Fig. l.

l claim as iny invention:

l. In the display device for individual boxes the combination with said boxes olI a body and a pair of side strips said side strips being of a Width less than the thickness of the said boxes and being inserted under tlie tongues of the said boxes.

2. The improved display device for individual boxes which comprises a body equal in height te a multiple of the width of one ol' the individual boxes, and a pair of side strips of a Width less than the thickness of the said boxes and capable of being inserted under the tongues of a plurality of the said individual boxes, the said strips being in planes at right angles to tlie said back.

in testimony whereof l allix in v signature, in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK N. LOOK. Witnesses:

FREDERICK C. ELX, W ii. Comms. 

